Tonight, the Singularity Movement achieved a major victory in their mission to rid the Maia system of Federal control.

Two days ago, the fighting raged on between the Ant Hill Mob and the Pleiades Resources Enterprise as they tried to desperately hold onto their last remaining base of power in the system. Only the outpost, Maia Point, located on Maia A 2 b planet, was still under their control and they did not intend to let it slip through their fingers as easily. The feds therefore concentrated all the forces present in the system to defend this outpost.

That’s when the general coordinator launched a call to arms: “A win today, means no Federal Base in Maia tomorrow!”

The Deus Ex Machina Initiative received the call as well. Although occupied around Shinrarta Dezhra, pilots participating in the Initiative’s “Operation: Burn Elites” were dispatched in support of the troops engaged by Singularity Movement in this decisive battle.

Fierce fighting raged the whole day and night, making many Federal casualties. However the feds finally gave up the game in the end.

Today, there is no longer any base under control of the Federation in Maia!

Who would have bet a few weeks ago that such a thing was possible?

A superpower was forced to bend it’s knees in front of a group of independent pilots who aren’t, for the most part, seasoned fighters.

Previously on July 20, Federal President Zachary Hudson promised (mostly to those who wanted to believe it) that the Federation was going to protect humanity from the “threat of an aggressive non-human species“. However, it has now been proven that they don’t have the ability to keep control of the smallest stones floating in a near system suburb of the Core Worlds.

There is no doubt that it will be even more so when Congress will hold the President accountable for the use of force he has made in the recent weeks of increasing the Federation’s military expenditure. This will please opposition leader Felicia Winters, as well as former President Jasmina Halsey’s supporters in Congress.